I enjoy reading all the comments to the various “Waging Peace” blog posts—what blogger doesn’t like people reading and responding?—though many of my book reviews tend not to attract a huge amount of debate. However, my post in January on violent rhetoric, “I Cannot Remain Silent: Words, Images, and the Arizona Massacre,” attracted quite a […]
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I read Lyn’s recent blog with great emotion. Something like 40 years ago I had a book entitled Strong At the Broken Places. It told the stories of several women who had conquered their substance abuse addictions, healed from the wounds of their various dysfunctional childhoods, cleaned up some of the wreckage to careers and […]
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Last summer I returned to school for a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College’s low-residency program. There, I met Pam Watts, who received her MFA this winter and was in my workshop for her final semester. Pam writes about troubled families and growing up with domestic […]
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Yes, that is a purposeful title, “Waging Peace”. How do we sort out the competing ideas, claims, needs with regard to Libya and the international community? I have been occupied with several family and business commitments leaving little time to study varying analyses of how this country could help Libya. And I make no claims […]
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March 25, 2011 marks the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, the majority of them women and some of them as young as 16 years old. Most of the deaths occurred because the factory owners locked the doors to the stairs and the exits because […]
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The Times Union has a headline today about the hearing on Muslims in America turning political. I guess. Otherwise how would you explain people wasting time on that which is obvious to those who 1) take the time to study the issues of violence, political violence, religious violence, and 9 /11 style attacks on countries […]
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One of the major forces contributing to the startling rise of inequality in the United States is the decline in union membership over the past thirty years. Without unions, workers have little bargaining power when employers seek to reduce wages and benefits, demand punishingly long hours, or skimp on safety. At the turn of the […]
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Well, a while back bloggers to this site talked about increases in domestic violence that occur following community traumas…..floods, earthquakes, war, and the like. I had not thought of this before the information offered in the post. Now, I have heard in the news that incidents of domestic violence have increased sharply since a very […]
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